ALYSSA MAnnenCampus reporter

The number of exchange students at OU this fall is lower than it has been in the past few years, according to a university spokeswoman.

This year OU welcomes 202 foreign exchange stu-dents, a slight decrease compared with past years (233 in fall 2011 and 227 in fall 2010), Education Abroad

CHASe Cookassistant Campus editor

No r m a n n o l o n g e r i s under mandator y water conservation but those liv-ing off-campus shouldn’t bust out the Slip ‘N Slide just yet.

City manager Steve Lewis rescinded the mandatory water conservation Monday after it had been in effect since Aug. 1, according to a city proclamation. However, residents are being encour-aged to use voluntary water conservation due to poten-tial spikes in summer heat and the state’s continuing drought threat, according to a press release.

“It’s just smart water use,” Norman utilities director Ken Komiske said. “It’s still the summer time and tem-peratures are still warm.”

According to Norman’s Water Conservation Plan, residents are urged to water on odd days if their address-es are odd and on even days if their addresses are even. Residents are also encour-aged to water early in the

day and reduce non-essen-tial water use where they can.

The cooler temperatures and recent rain may make the si tuation seem less bleak, but Lake Thunderbird is still 59 inches below nor-mal levels, Komiske said.

And the outlook through October is that the state will remain in a drought, he said.

Saving water and using it wisely means the city will have enough to pump water to the top of the hospital and that water will be avail-able for things like firefight-ing or other emergencies, Komiske said.

If residents don’t keep water use down, it’s pos-sible that water restrictions

CHASe Cookassistant Campus editor

G r a d u a t e S t u d e n t Senate will be accepting nominations for a new chair after the previous chair woman resigned Tuesday.

P s y c h o l o g y d o c -toral student Kiersten Baughman said she ten-dered her resignation after she was asked by her department to take an-other position.

The Senate will request nominations beginning Monday and ending Aug. 31, Senate vice-chairman James Cook said.

The Senate’s executive committee will then put together a ballot and a selection will be made as soon as possible, he said.

A s v i c e - c h a i r m a n , Native American Studies graduate student Cook will assume Baughman’s responsibilities until a person is selected as the new chair.

Cook and Baughman were elected as leaders during last semester’s Senate elections.

Cook said he support-ed Baughman’s decision and that he was looking forward to getting a new chair elected.

“She is doing what’s best for her and her de-partment,” Baughman said.

N o m i n e e s f o r Baughman’s posit ion must be in good standing with the Senate, and the senator must have served at least a spring or fall se-mester, according to the Senate’s bylaws.

Cook has served on the Senate for five semesters and said he would con-sider accepting a nomi-nat i o n i f h i s na m e i s brought up, but he has a family and other obliga-tions to fulfill.

Baughman was forced to choose between the Senate and the psycholo-gy department when she was asked to take another position in the depart-ment, Baughman said.

T h e n e w p o s i t i o n , along with her role as chairwoman, made her a full-time employee, so she had to pick a position

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Biology junior nishan thapa holds mini flags in front of the International Advisor Committee table tuesday during Howdy Week on the south Oval.

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OU student Casey Cooke, 22, was drunk when she fell to her death from the Evans Hall fire escape June 3, ac-cording to her autopsy.

The medical examiner wrote Cooke had “acute

e t h a n o l i n -toxication” as a significant medical con-dition during her death.

Her blood alcohol level was .19 per-cent, accord-

ing to the autopsy.Cooke was discovered

u n re s p o n s i v e a t a b o u t 2:30 a.m. by campus police

beneath the building’s fire escape. Her cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma to the head and chest and the manner was labeled an accident, according to the autopsy.

Cooke’s death led the uni-versity to remove the fire es-cape from Evans Hall and start a campus-wide review of fire safety.

The university plans to rebuild two fire escapes

on campus to bring them up to date and to begin i mp le m e nti ng ne w f i re safety plans after an en-g i n e e r i n g f i r m m a k e s recommendations.

Student’s blood alcohol content was .19 percent

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A 31-year-old program will continue the tradi-tion of bringing a family environment and sense of home to international stu-dents at OU by holding an orientation Thursday.

Friends to International Students, a host family

program founded by Millie Audas, director emeritus of Education Abroad and International Studies, will hold its meeting for po-tential host families at 5:30 p.m. at the Norman Public Library.

The program matches international students with families in Norman, typi-cally those of faculty mem-bers, to bring a sense of family to the students, the FIS boardmember said.

“When you are in a new

place where the language, culture, everything is dif-ferent, the people that have welcomed you [and] opened their hearts and homes to you … make all the difference,” Audas said. “Nothing is more impor-tant than feeling welcome by family.”

And Audas knows what it’s like to be in those shoes.

At 15, Audas left her home in Bolivia and began

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a life as an international stu-dent to attend one year of high school in Illinois. She had planned to return home and complete high school there but instead graduated early and attended college in Michigan, France and Italy.

While in France, Audas said she became close to the daughter of one host family.

“She is as close as a blood sister,” she said.

Upon coming to OU in 1978, Audas applied that family feeling to her position at the College of International Studies, where she molded the program from President George Lynn Cross’ Host Families program into its cur-rent form in 1981.

Presidents of FIS Dale and Lisa Robinett are familiar with how close host families and students become with each other. When the couple began hosting students in 1989 to expose their young sons to other cultures, a boy from former Yugoslavia en-tered their lives.

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Gss: Chairwoman steps down from positionContinued from page A1

that would move her below the ful l- t ime employe e threshold, she said.

State law does not allow graduate students to be full-time employees, Baughman said.

Graduate students have an obligation to serve their respective department, Baughman said.

“It was completely not my plan,” she said. “I was very much looking forward to serving as chair.”

Baughman said she still plans to serve as a senator, since that doesn’t impact her part-time employee

status at the university.Senate adviser George

Ahmadi expressed regret that Baughman had to re-sign, but said the shake-up in leadership wouldn’t cause any problems in the Senate.

There are rules in the by-laws to deal with situations like this, he said.

“We will not see any set-backs in any way,” Ahmadi said. “The show must go on.”

The Senate’s first meeting is 7 p.m. Sunday in Sarkeys Energy Center, room A235.

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“It was completely not my plan. I was very much looking forward to serving as chair.”

Kiersten Baughman, Former gss Chair

“This is my favorite story to tell people about host-ing,” Lisa said. “We got three students, and one from Yugoslavia came up with long, curly hair, a leather jacket and tight jeans. I thought, ‘What have we gotten ourselves into? What are we putting in front of our children?’”

What the Robinetts got was a relationship that endures to this day, a relationship that lasted through student’s doc-torate studies and beyond.

Lisa said the feeling of closeness never changes.

“We recently said goodbye to a student from India,” Lisa said. “It tore my heart out. She was like my daughter going far away.”

Claudia Robertson, a staff assistant at the College of International Studies, also has hosted students.

“My kids are growing up learning that the world is big-ger than Oklahoma and the United States,” Robertson said.

Melodie Lettkeman mlettkeman@ou.edu

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Austin ederer, a member of the Healthy sooners, passes out free water to students tuesday as part of Howdy Week on the south Oval. ederer is a health and exercise senior.

Sooners say ‘Howdy’

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all the time so we have to rest wells so that water levels can recover,” Hapke said.

Nor man operates be-t w e e n 3 6 t o 3 8 w e l l s , Komiske said.

At least five of those wells are dow n be caus e the y have been running for 35 to 40 days straight when they should be running one day and then shut off for one day, Hapke said.

The demand was high

enough that the wells had to continue running, he said.

OU has been resilient to the recent heat thanks to the university having a personal supply of water wells. This makes the university ex-empt from Norman’s water conservation requests since it manages its own water supply.

The rain in the spring helped deal with the hot-t e r d a y s o f s u m m e r, Landscaping and Grounds director Allen King said.

“All in all we have been pretty fortunate,” King said.

The recent cooler weather has helped OU’s water sup-ply and less water is needed day-to-day, King said.

It has also helped keep plants and trees from dying. There hasn’t been bigger loss than the department is used to seeing, he said.

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can be imposed again. If the city’s water need ex-ceeds production capacity by 4 million gallons for two consecutive days, manda-tory water conservation can be implemented, ac-cording to Norman’s Water Conservation Plan.

Norman has wells that pump water and a water t re at m e n t p l a n t , b u t i t isn’t always enough, so the city purchases water from Oklahoma City, said Bryan Hapke, Vernon Campbell Wat e r T re at m e nt Pl a nt supervisor.

Norman operates a water treatment plant and water

wells, which can produce an average of about 13 to 14 million gallons of water a day between the two, Hapke said.

“We can’t run all the wells

students living off-campus can use these tactics to save water:

• Water the lawn or garden in the morning to limit evaporation

• Wash vehicles with a bucket of water and soap

• install low-flow showerheads

• don’t use the toilet as a wastebasket

• operate dishwashers and washing machines only when completely full

• turn the faucet off when brushing teeth or shaving

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director Alice Kloker said. This decrease may be attrib-uted to the language requirement instituted two years ago, Kloker said.

Despite the decrease in students, the number of part-ner universities and countries has stayed relatively the same, she said. This fall, foreign exchange students come from 68 different universities in 26 different coun-tries, according to the 2012 International Profile.

Students are given two to three days of orientation upon arriving on campus to help them make the tran-sition, Kloker said. The orientation includes informa-tion on what to expect in the Norman area, as well as advanced preparation for their classes, she said.

Computer science graduate student Ricardo Santos from Portugal is one of the new exchange students this fall. A native of Beja, a town located a few hours south-east of Lisbon, Santos never has been to the U.S. until now, he said. Santos completed his undergraduate work at the Universidade de Coimbra before coming to OU.

“It’s the oldest Portuguese university, so it’s really beautiful,” he said about his undergraduate alma mater. “I’m really proud of things like that.”

Santos decided to study abroad because he’s never had the opportunity to travel much, and several of his friends who had studied abroad encouraged him to do so, he said.

He primarily focused on English-speaking countries as possible destinations because he wanted to go some-where where he could practice his English, Santos said. He originally wanted to stay closer to home and searched for programs based in the United Kingdom, but because his university had no such program, he turned to the U.S., he said.

He picked Oklahoma because he’d heard that it was friendly and that there were plenty of things to do at OU, he said. One of this biggest adjustments he’s had to make since coming here is the difference in cultural schedule, Santos said. For example, Norman restaurants and bars close earlier than in Portugal.

He does like the university environment though and described his university in Portugal as less of a central-ized community.

“Right here, you have everything in the campus, and that’s really good because you have like a city of stu-dents,” he said.

Through the exchange student orientation, Santos al-ready has signed up for several clubs at OU, he said.

Although traveling to another country may seem daunting initially, Santos said he is happy he chose to do so and hopes to come back to the U.S. to work after completing his education.

Alyssa Mannen, Alyssa.L.Mannen-1@ou.edu

JAke MoRgAnassistant Campus editor

O k l a h o m a M e m o r i a l Union’s Will Rogers Room became a bowl of Greek al-phabet soup Tuesday night as OU’s fraternity pledge classes signed their official bids to become new mem-bers within their respective fraternities.

Also known as signing day, the occasion marks the culmination of the rush pro-cess, Interfraternity Council President Nick Coffey said. The act of signing the official bid card represents a pledge’s commitment to a specific house.

“In other words, they can’t go join another fraternity right now,” Coffey said.

The entire process begins during the summer when re-cruitment teams from each fraternity chapter on cam-pus organizes events to at-tract students to their house, Coffey said. However, stu-dents who attend the sum-mer rush events represent only 20 percent of the men who eventually go through recruitment.

Formal recruitment pre-viously lasted for two days, but IFC decided to condense the process down to one day, Saturday, in order keep the effort energized and focused, Coffey said.

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Official fraternity bids signed

“It was getting over-com-plicated,” Coffey said. “We shrunk it down to one to im-prove chapter presence and help the rush teams out.”

After a series of cuts to the number of potential new members, an unofficial sign-ing day is held the day before to give chapters an idea of the size of their incoming pledge class, Coffey said.

“It’s basically to get your ducks in a row,” he said.

Eight-hundred and seven-ty-five men signed up for for-mal recruitment online this fall, Interfraternity Council Adviser Koby Harrington s a i d , a n d I FC h o p e s t o achieve a retention rate of around 85 percent this fall. The number represents the

percent of men who signed official bids out of the total number of students who signed up for recruitment online.

In the Will Rogers Room, rows of tables covered with pens and paper awaited sig-natures of OU’s upcoming fraternity members. One by one, chapters filed in, includ-ing Sigma Nu, which is intro-ducing its first pledge class since leaving the university in 2010.

Spencer Montgomery, expansion and recruitment consultant for Sigma Nu, said the reintroduction of the fra-ternity brings back an exten-sive history to the university. Before leaving in 2010, Sigma Nu continually had a chapter

at OU since 1909.Fresh from signing their

bids with Beta Theta Pi, University College freshman John Wiggins, Hayden Bryan and Aaron Murray said the transition from a normal stu-dent to a new fraternity mem-ber leaves them “ecstatic.”

“It’s hard not to smile when you’re a part of something like this,” Murray said.

Hayden said there’s noth-ing comparable to gaining 64 new brothers in a single night.

“This is one of the best de-cisions of my life during one of the biggest times of my life,” Murray said.

Jake Morgan, jakemorgan@ou.edu

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University College freshmen Hunter sutterfield (right) and Charles sager sign their sigma nu bid cards tuesday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

eXCHAnGe: OU is a ‘city of students,’ Portuguese graduate student saysContinued from page A1

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ricardo santos, computer science graduate student from Portugal, tries to figure out how he will bike back to his apart-ment with a package tuesday outside of Cate Center.

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QUOTABLE: “We will not see any setbacks in any way. The show must go on,” said Graduate Student Senate adviser George Ahmadi about the GSS chair’s resignation. (Page 1)

Mary Stan� eld, opinion editorKayley Gillespie, assistant editor

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A4 • Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Our View: Don’t just register to vote, make sure you’re registered in Norman.

If you live near the main campus and study or work at OU, you are not just a resident of the univer-sity, but a resident of Norman. But how many of you have lent your voice to important local issues?

On Aug. 28, Norman residents will have a chance to vote on a moderate property tax increase that will pay for construction projects to fix safety, congestion and flooding issues. If you’re registered to vote in the city, it’s important for you to go out and support these much-needed improvements.

But chances are most of you still are registered in your hometown (or state), if you’re registered at all. No matter how long you’ve been here or how long you intend to stay, it’s important for you to be able to vote in Norman.

Being registered in Norman allows you to par-ticipate in local elections. This includes electing local officials, such as city council members and the mayor, who actively affect the daily lives of Normanites. It also gives you input on important is-sues like the upcoming bond election.

Compared to presidential elections or state ref-erendums, it might be difficult to see how a local

election could ever be significant. But a quick look through the last few years’ headlines shows several im-portant local issues.

In 2011, Norman residents voted to give $3 million to the Norman Animal Shelter to expand and up-date its facilities, allowing it to keep

more animals and house them in sanitary condi-tions. The vote was preceded by strong debate, and the outcome was uncertain.

In 2010, a Norman City Council meeting about a proposed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender his-tory month devolved into several hours of hate-filled vitriol against the GLBT community. A month later, Zachary Harrington, a gay man who had attended the meeting, committed suicide.

Council members ultimately passed the reso-lution. Though no political action could bring Harrington back or undo the damage caused that day, continuing to elect progressive council mem-bers would go a long way toward ensuring such a tragedy is not repeated.

City council members also control changes to the local community. These changes affect students both on and off campus. For example, a noise ordinance passed in 2000 discouraged off-campus student parties.

The council also con-trols transportation, drainage and other things that affect everyone. And if the city is ever going to be more bicycle-friendly, that change will start with the council.

And it’s not just about being able to vote in local elections. Being registered in Norman also will make it easier to vote in the national elections with-out having to make a trip home or vote absentee.

Anything you can do to simplify the process will make you less likely to skip the polls that day.

More importantly, when you do vote, your choice will be added to the state and local numbers. No matter which party you vote for, it’s important to be counted so the community can have an accurate measure of its political leanings.

Even if you’re a Democrat voting in this predomi-nantly red state, your vote is not wasted. It’s perhaps more important, even, for you to make yourself heard so that the real level of political diversity in Norman and Oklahoma can be seen.

But if you are registered currently in a battle-ground state that is more likely than Oklahoma to go either way in the election, then you should stay reg-istered in your home state — and be sure to vote ab-sentee by visiting your state’s election board website.

If you do plan to change your registration, you don’t have enough time to do so before Tuesday’s bond election. But if you do it before Oct. 12 , you’ll be registered in time for Nov. 6’s national election.

How to registerYou can register to vote or change your registra-

tions by filling out a new registration card with a Norman address.

Go to OUDaily.com to download the digital ver-sion or find a map of locations where you can pick one up in person.

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Students should take stand for Syria

While on break, students tend to block out the

world in favor of more mal-aise and relaxing realities.

Fortunately for nearly all Americans, the fear of an artillery strike on a hospital, mechanized assaults on sub-urban neighborhoods and the loss of an entire genera-tion in a family is a distant and abstract notion.

However, this does not and should not abdicate the American public’s conscience from the atrocities taking place in Syria. The millennial generation — those who range in age from 16 to 25 — is by far the most electronically con-nected in terms of global communication. Now is the time for us to put this vehicle into action.

Last semester, I wrote a column imploring students to take action so we can keep Syria off of a macabre list that includes the likes of Rwanda, Sarajevo, Srebrenica and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a death toll in excess of 20,000 and evidence suggesting the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad has committed atrocities amounting to war crimes, the window for the possibility of avoiding mass atrocity crimes has now passed. What remains is the opportunity for swift cessation and resolution. But the current geopolitical climate would suggest that this secondary follow-up objec-tive may fall out of reach as well.

Here is where we must take a stand.The case for intervention in Syria would be first and fore-

most humanitarian. In contrast with how the U.S. handled Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, justification for an intervention could be mounted solely on humanitarian grounds, without needing a weapons of mass destruction goose-chase.

Thanks to the proliferation of online tools, such as blogs, YouTube and Twitter, firsthand looks at the violence and de-pravity in Syria are easily accessible.

Those who claim a non-interventionist policy no longer can stand by the sidelines. The U.S. and other allies already have intervened. Now there is only a question as to what ex-tent we will continue to intervene. Non-lethal aid, medical supplies and diplomatic measures are all forms of external intervention into the Syrian crisis.

To those who say the risk of your grandchild having to pay an extra 5 percent in taxes in 50 years to pay off a national debt means we must not help people half a world away who are truly suffering, remember this: At the very least you can still talk that way about your progenies’ future. Hundreds of families in Syria have lost that ability through the loss of an entire generation.

I said it before: If we remain comatose and act compla-cent, we will become morally culpable. We still have time to right the course of history. This reinvigorated call for action is not a call for war or invasion, but rather to help the Syrians suffering at the hands of their own brutal government.

You should be outraged and angry at such senseless slaughter and the subsequent lack of committed action. By understanding the daily hell Syrian children are experienc-ing, you will see how strong the justification is for continued intervention. Your calls should become stronger and more passionate the more you learn of their suffering.

And if our peaceful intervention tactics fail and the need for direct military intervention becomes a potential reality, the mere fact that steps were taken to understand the issue before the onset of war will make for a more honest and in-telligent discussion.

Nolan Kraszkiewicz is a political science and religious studies senior.

The average American may be under the false im-

pression that the destruc-tion of rainforests is less of an issue today than when the subject was a hot button issue during the 1990s.

That simply isn’t true. In fact, the destruction of rain-forests has not only contin-ued, but accelerated greatly

in the last 15 years, while the world has focused on other areas, such as terrorism, war, energy and economic re-cession — problems that affect the U.S. indirectly but do not always begin on U.S. soil.

The environment is part of an interconnected web and adverse conditions have negative repercussions every-where, just like terrorism, war and recessions.

Normanites should be just as concerned with the Amazon rainforests as they are with trickle-down eco-nomic policies overseas that eventually impact the U.S. Our health and well-being is at stake.

The rainforests of the world are under severe threat with no sign of their destruction abating. According to The Nature Conservatory, 6 million square miles of rain-forests once existed worldwide. Now, only 2.6 million square miles remain.

Additionally, a chunk of rainforest the size of a football field is lost every second, totaling to a deficit of 86,400 football field-sized rainforest plots lost each day.

If the trend of global rainforest destruction continues, not only will these vital ecosystems and their inhabitants be threatened with extinction by the year 2050, but the biosphere of the whole planet will be thrown out of bal-ance. Yes, even Norman is part of this biosphere.

The leading causes of rainforest deforestation are predictable; the harvest of forest for lumber and paper or pulp products, such as newspapers, toilet paper and paper towels. Think about your fast food sack you dis-carded this afternoon or this copy of The Daily you’ll probably throw away instead of either recycling or re-turning to the stand for someone else to read.

The primary causes for deforestation are thought to be somewhat preventable, yet measures to address the problem are hardly practiced at all, let alone at a level that can make a great difference.

The responsibility to reduce and reuse, therefore less-ening the need to harvest more and more lumber is on each and every one of us because rainforests contain more than mere biomatter that can be turned into wood shingles and throwaway tissue paper.

Important medicines and organic compounds al-ready have been harvested from tropical forests from around the world, and many more are yet waiting to be discovered.

According to The Nature Conservatory, more than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scien-tists as having anti-cancer properties, yet scientists have only analyzed less than one percent of the tropical rain-forest species for their medicinal value.

When we allow the decimation of rainforests, we also unknowingly could be destroying the cure for cancer or AIDS or serious diseases yet to emerge.

The American Cancer Society estimates more than 19,000 new cancer cases in Oklahoma alone for 2012. Making these kinds of sacrifices for short term, unsus-tainable economic gain is insane.

The fight to save rainforests is for the most part re-duced to the argument of jobs and profits versus trees or “tree huggers.” People who have fully bought in to the value system of industrialism and supply-side or trickle-down economics fail to comprehend humans are essen-tially committing suicide and precipitating the mass ex-tinction of many other biosphere-supporting organisms.

Worse, many of those who willfully and even vehe-mently support this economic scheme and culture of death, seething at any perceptible threat to it, honestly consider themselves to be “pro-life.”

With the destruction of rainforests imminent and pos-sibly irreversible, the question of whether or not we are doing enough to protect rainforests is on the verge of be-coming a moot point.

With all the various environmental concerns com-pounding one another, the question is about to become, “Why didn’t we do more before it was too late?”

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NEWS Wednesday, August 22, 2012 • A5

WORLD NEWS BRIEFS1. QUITO, ECUADOR

110 families evacuated in Ecuador eruption

Ecuadorean authorities say 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock, ash and lava since the weekend.

Spokeswoman Mercedes Taipe of Ecuador’s Geophysics Institute says a column of vapor and ash up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) high has charac-terized the moderate-to-strong eruption.

The Associated Press

2. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Lonmin strike continues, dozens of miners shot dead

A spokeswoman for Lonmin’s PR company says that only some 27 percent of workers returned to work Monday morning despite a warning that those on strike would face dismissal. Police shot dead dozens of striking miners near the Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa last week.

Sue Vey, spokeswoman for the Lonmin PR company Inzalo, said on Monday it is unknown how many of the returning workers had taken part in the strike that began on Aug. 10.

The Associated Press

3. DAMASCUS, SYRIA

Syria’s President Assad makes rare public appearance

Syria’s state-run TV has aired footage of the Syrian president performing Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus.

It is Bashar Assad’s � rst public appearance since a July 18 Damascus bombing that killed the coun-try’s defense minister and three other top security of� cials, including the president’s brother-in-law.

The last time he appeared in public was on July 4 when he gave a speech in parliament.

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Taliban attacks U.S. forcesAttack follows killings of U.S. military trainers

D. MYLES CULLEN/DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

In this image released by the U.S. Department of Defense and taken Monday, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepares to board a CH-47 at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

KAY JOHNSONAssociated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition said Tuesday.

The rocket strike that hit the plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey was yet another propaganda coup for the Taliban after they claimed to have shot down a U.S. helicopter last week.

It also followed a string of disturbing killings of U.S. military trainers by their Afghan partners or mili-tants dressed in Afghan uni-form. Such attacks killed ten Americans in the last two weeks alone.

Ta l i b a n s p o k e s m a n Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Monday night at the Bagram Air Field outside Kabul, saying Dempsey’s plane was tar-geted by insurgents “using exact information” about where it would be.

Two maintenance work-ers were slightly injured by shrapnel from the two rock-ets fired, coalition spokes-man Jamie Graybeal said.

Dempsey was nowhere near the plane when the rockets hit near where the aircraft was parked, the spokesman added.

Dempsey had finished his mission in Afghanistan and

had left by Tuesday morn-ing on a different plane, said Graybeal. A helicopter on the base was also damaged in the attack, according to NATO.

Graybeal cast doubt on the idea that Dempsey’s plane may have been hit by any precision attack. He said that insurgent rocket and mortar attacks are “not infrequent” at Bagram and that such fires most often comes from so far away that it’s virtually impos-sible to hit specific targets.

Bagram is a sprawling complex about an hour’s drive north of Kabul that usually serves as the first point of entrance for U.S. of-ficials visiting the country. It is the hub for military opera-tions in the east of the coun-try and the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan.

D e m p s e y w a s i n

Afghanistan to discuss the state of the war after a partic-ularly deadly few weeks for Americans in the more than ten-year-old war as interna-tional forces begin drawing down.

He and the chief of U.S. Central Command, Marine Gen. James R. Mattis, met with NATO and U.S. Afghan c o m m a n d e r G e n . Jo h n Allen in Kabul and also with a number of senior Afghan and coalition leaders.

Among the topics was the escalating number of “insid-er attacks” in which Afghan police, soldiers or militants dressed in Afghan uniform turn their guns on coalition military trainers. Once an anomaly, such attacks have been climbing in recent months. There have been 32 such attacks so far this year, up from 21 for all of 2011,

according to NATO.Taliban supreme leader

Mullah Mohammad Omar last week said the insider killings were the result of an insurgent campaign of infiltration, though NATO has said it’s too early to tell if the attacks were related to the insurgency of caused by personal disputes turned deadly.

The Taliban also claimed to have shot down a U.S. mil-itary helicopter that crashed during a firefight with in-surgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven Americans and four Afghans on board in one of the dead-liest air disasters of the war.

U.S. officials, however, said initial reports were that enemy fire was not involved in the crash.

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MATTHEW DALYAssociated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President Joe Biden, who will be a Democratic pres-ence in Florida next week as Republicans gather to nominate their presiden-tial candidate, on Tuesday compared GOP critics of the Obama administra-tion’s Wall Street reforms to “squealing pigs.”

B i d e n ’ s c o m m e n t s showed he has no inten-tion of softening his attack-dog rhetoric, despite wide-spread criticism of remarks he made last week in which he said presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney and other Republicans would put Americans “back in chains” in order to unshack-le Wall Street.

Appearing before a rau-cous crowd in downtown Minneapolis, Biden said a Democratic-led Congress had approved a law reining in the Wall Street excesses that contributed to the na-tion’s economic collapse four years ago. The Dodd-Frank law, which tough-ened financial-industry regulations after the 2008 meltdown, was approved despite strong objections from Republicans, includ-ing Romney, Biden said.

“O v e r t h e o b j e c t i o n s — where they sound like squealing pigs — over the objections of Romney and all of his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in histo-ry,” Biden said.

A6 • Wednesday, August 22, 2012 NEWS

NATION NEWS BRIEFS1. PORTLAND, OREGON

US judge says Vatican isn’t priests’ employer

The Vatican has won a major victory in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests.

The ruling Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman ends a six-year question in the decade-old case and could shield the Vatican from possible monetary damages.

The original lawsuit was � led in 2002 by a Seattle-area man who claimed the Rev. Andrew Ronan repeatedly molested him in the late 1960s.

The Associated Press

2. ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND

CSX train derails outside Baltimore, killing 2

Authorities outside Baltimore say a CSX train hauling coal has derailed in downtown Ellicott City and two people have been killed.

Howard County of� cials say 21 of the train’s 80 cars � ipped over and fell from a bridge just before midnight Monday. County Executive Ken Ulman says some of the cars crushed parked vehicles in a nearby county-owned lot.

The Associated Press

3. NEW YORK

NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases

In more than six years spying on Muslim neigh-borhoods, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or trig-gered a terrorism investigation.

That’s according to court testimony unsealed Monday. The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a police spying effort built with help from the CIA.

The Associated Press

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Vice President Joe Biden points to his head as he greets supporters after he addressed a grassroots rally, Tuesday in Minneapolis.

ELECTIONS

Biden calls Wall Street reform critics ‘squealing pigs’Vice president praises financial-industry regulations

Although the economy remains sluggish and un-employment persistently high, Biden said that prog-ress was being made under President Back Obama.

“Folks, the middle class has started to come back. They have been ravaged,”

he said.Biden said a budget plan

offered by Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was neither new nor courageous.

“What’s bold about gut-ting Medicare and edu-cation to pay for tax cuts” for the rich? Biden asked. “We’ve seen this movie before, we know how it ends. It ends with the Great Recession of 2008. It ends with catastrophe.”

Biden said Romney had flip-flopped on trade sanc-tions against China by once denouncing them as protec-tionism but now supporting them. The vice president pointed to Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, to criti-cize the Republican further

on China policy.“I wish he’d been that

tough when companies owned by Bain were out-sourcing thousands of jobs to China,” he said.

The Obama campaign a n n o u n c e d t h a t B i d e n will be attending events in Florida on Monday and Tuesday, including a stop in Tampa on the convention’s opening day. Obama won Florida four years ago, but Republicans are hoping the weeklong convention will help them recapture the key battleground.

A f t e r h i s s p e e c h i n Minneapolis, Biden asked reporters, “Any of you going to Florida?” He added, “I’m going to be the speaker at the convention.”

“What’s bold about gutting Medicare and education to

pay for tax cuts” for the rich? We’ve seen this movie before, we know how it

ends.”VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

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Garrett HoltSports Reporter

Senior for ward Renae Cuellar never expected to end up playing soccer at OU.

The senior transfer student from Arizona always thought she would be playing college ball closer to her La Puente, Calif., home.

“I was recruited by OU,” Cuellar said. “But I was look-ing more toward the west coast when I came out of school. More of the Pac-12 Conference.”

The Sooner soccer team is

glad that she had a change of heart, though, as she made an impact for them in her first game, scoring both of the team’s goals in their season-opening 2-1 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

However, while she may

be a star on the field, Cuellar says she isn’t doing it on her own, and that it takes a team to win.

“It obviously starts from the back and goes to the front,” Cuellar said. “It’s not just me individually, but the hustle and effort of my team-mates creating space for me and helping me get those op-portunities. They presented themselves, and I put them away, fortunately.”

This team mentality has served Cuellar well in her college career, helping her score 17 goals and tally four assists for the Wildcats from 2008-2011.

ross strackeSports Reporter

Most college athletes have to adjust to a new set of teammates and new level of competition, but in high school, sophomore de-fender Molly Richey had to ad-just to playing with the opposite gender.

Since her high school did not offer a girls’ soccer team, Richey took matters into her own hands. As a freshman at Bishop T.K. Gorman High School in Tyler,Texas, she tried out for and made the boys’ soccer team.

As an already competitive club soccer player, which is where most soccer players get scouted, she could have stayed content

with just playing competitively there.

But according to her high school coach Skyler Clarkston, the boys’ game added a new el-ement that she needed to learn and adapt to, even though she played girls club soccer at the highest level already. Clarkston believes she took as much away from her experience psychologi-cally as she did physically.

“Most other schools jeered her when she was a freshman and a sophomore,” Clarkston said. “To be expected. Mostly due to the fact that she was a girl, but more because she was actually good and better than they were.”

Robert Richey, Molly’s father, also took notice that his daughter was better than most of the boys.

“At first, the guys were more afraid of her than she was of them and as a result she got a lot of open field chances,” Robert said. “Then, when we played these teams again, they began to cover her more closely.”

However, Richey says she tried out not only to get better, but to be able to represent her school as well.

“Every athlete wants the chance to represent his or her school,” Richey said.

She admits she was a little

nervous but was “fortunate” to play on a very competitive team my freshmen year.

“I believe we went all the way to the state quarterfinals that sea-son,” Richey said. “My teammates took really good care of me, and I really had a blast playing soccer with the guys.”

After her freshman season, Clarkston said they lost key play-ers and, as a result, in her soph-omore and junior years, Richey was “by far the best player we had.”

Richey was a three-year starter for the team as well as a three-time all district honoree. As a junior, she was named the most valuable player of the boys’ team.

In Richey’s mind, her expe-rience on the boys’ team pre-pared her for the speed and

SPORTSSection B • Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Kedric Kitchens, sports editorDillon Phillips, assistant editor

dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

Great summer movies to be hitting video stores soon (Page B4)

Football

bell takes over as backup quarterback

Dillon PHilliPsAssistant Sports Editor

OU football coach Bob Stoops announced that sophomore quarterback Blake Bel l w i l l back up L a n d r y Jo n e s t h i s s e a -son after practice Tuesday evening.

A f t e r m o n t h s o f

speculation, Bell claimed the Sooners’ backup quarter-back job, edging out fellow quarterbacks junior Drew Allen, redshirt freshman Kendall Thompson and true freshman Trevor Knight.

“I just feel Blake’s been more consistent overall and is playing the way we

need him to,” Stoops said.

O f f e n s i v e coordinator Josh Heupel c i t e d B e l l ’s command of the offense, playmaking a b i l i t y a n d

ball control as attributes that separated him from the rest of the quarterbacks.

“Where we’re at, we feel

that [Bell] is moving in the right direction, and we want to give him those reps,” Heupel said. “I think he felt a lot more comfortable grasp-ing our offense, (and) defen-sively, knowing what peo-ple are doing and where he needed to go with the ball.”

Bell had his coming-out party last season, as his “Belldozer” package had wild success and provided a solution for the Sooners’ red

zone woes.Stoops said Bell’s role in

the “Belldozer” package won’t change, and Allen, the backup all of last season, will still be in the mix.

“[Drew] will continue to battle,” Stoops said. “He’s had a great attitude and con-tinued to work really hard also.”

Dillon Phillips dphillips85@ou.edu

AT A GLANCEblake bell at oUBell ran the ball 44 times for 171 yards and 13 touchdowns last year. He also attempted four passes, completing one and throwing one interception.

Source: SoonerSports.com

A ‘more consistent’ Bell gains the role of back-up this season, Bob Stoops said

Stoops names team captains

analysis

Five elite players given the prestigious honor

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sophomore defender Molly Richey (24) and senior midfielder Zoe Dickson (5) wrestle the ball from a nebraska player in a 2-1 win Friday night. Richey got pre-pared to play college soccer by playing on her high school boys’ soccer team for three years before creating a girls’ team her senior year.

socceR

Sooner sharpened skills vs. boys

blake bell

OU soccer player played on boys’ high school team for three years

Former Wildcat is comfortable with her new homesocceR

AT A GLANCEMolly Richeyrichey played three years on the boys’ soccer team in high school before spearheading the creation of a girl’s team her senior year.

see Richey PAge B2

toby neiDySports Reporter

When OU football coach Bob Stoops announced the teams’ five captains on Monday, it was really no surprise to hear senior quarterback Landry Jones made the list.

Jones, who is a three-t im e cap t ai n a nd t h e Sooners’ starting QB since taking over following an injury to former starter Sam Bradford in 2009, is an obvious choice to wear the designated ‘C’ on his uniform, as that type of recognition comes with the position’s territory.

Senior defensive end David King, junior offen-sive lineman Gabe Ikard and junior fullback Trey Millard were also rightful-ly recognized as leaders of their perspective individu-al teams. But one captain’s name that may raise a few eyebrows is senior punter Tress Way.

It’s not very often that you hear about a special teams member nomi-nated as a team captain, but the Sooners obviously look to Way for leadership on their team because this is the senior’s second con-secutive year to don the ‘C.’

Way has started every game (40) during his ca-reer at OU and holds the program’s record for ca-reer punts over 50 yards (58). He’s been nomi-nated to All-Big 12 lists since his first official sea-son as a Sooner and his career-long 85-yarder against Utah State in 2010 is the third longest in OU’s history.

He may not be tabbed on the preseason Ray Guy Award watch list — that annually recognizes the top punters in the coun-try — but Way has already proved he has the capabil-ity and the leg strength to be one of the best punters this season.

And that’s really what makes this group of five t e a m m a t e s t h e r i g h t choice for this year’s list of captains: all five have something to prove in each of their positions.

Jones will look to com-plete his four-year tour at OU and help to keep his team in the hunt for the eighth national title.

King and Ikard w il l each switch to new posi-tions this season to fill the holes on both the defen-sive and offensive lines, respectively.

T h e S o o n e r s h a v e also found room in the

see captainS PAge B2

New player emerges as team’s top scoring threat

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arizona transfer, senior forward Renae cuellar goes after the ball in a game against lsU on Monday. the sooners lost 1-0 in double overtime. cuellar is the team’s leading scorer this season.

see cuellaR PAge B2

“Obviously Renae’s a talent. I was really pleased about the framework that

she played within the concept of our

team.”OU SOCCER COACh MATT

POTTER

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offensive playbook with Millard, who continues to showcase his workhorse mentality after finishing with 169 rushing, 127 receiving yards and two touchdowns last season. With one more year of invaluable experi-ence under his belt, Millard has already caught the posi-tive attention of coaches dur-ing the summer workouts.

And, finally, Way will look to round out his OU kicking career by continuing to pro-duce one of the nation’s top kicking averages this year.

While their athleticism is top caliber for each of their individual positions, these five athletes also carry a de-gree of leadership that will help keep the entire team

focused throughout the 2012 season. And having the offi-cial ‘C’ on their uniform will be just one more reminder that these five specific ath-letes know what responsi-bility they have to keep this Sooner team on the right track.

tobi neidy tneidy@gmail.com

B2 • Wednesday, August 22, 2012 SportS

Richey: Improved from high school soccer daysContinued from page B1

s t re n g t h o f t h e c o l l e g e game.

“Going from the girls’ club team to boys’ high school is way faster, and they are ob-viously a lot more physical, so I got pushed around a lot,” Richey said. “It taught me to adapt to the game and play faster.”

By her senior year, Richey felt other girls deserved the opportunity to represent their school through soccer like she did. So, rather than just talk about it, she con-vinced her mom and dad to help fund a girls’ team and talked to the athletic direc-tor of her school about form-ing one.

After that, all she needed were girls to sign up, and the response was immediate ac-cording to Richey.

“Basically, I had to go out

there and get a group of girls to sign the papers and say, ‘Hey, we will come if you form a team,’” Richey said. “By the end of that month or so, I had a list of 25 girls, and we were all fighting for spots.”

In her final year, all of

Richey’s hard work paid off and she shined. As a se-nior on the girls’ team, she earned district MVP honors as well as being named to first-team All-State.

Currently, she is in her sophomore year at OU and has started the past two

games for the S ooners. Richey says she still carries her experience in boys’ soc-cer with her and, in her eyes, how the boys play isn’t so different to how the girls in college.

“On a division one level it kind of feels the same hon-estly,” said Richey. “You get pushed around a lot you fall down, you just have to get back up.”

C l a r k s t o n s a y s w h a t Richey did was a huge prep-aration for college and that he still gets questions re-garding Richey three years later.

“She has definitely left a legacy at the school, for our program and future play-ers,” Clarkston said. “Players and coaches are still talking about ‘that girl’ we had.”

ross stracke ross.stracke@ou.edu

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sophomore defender Molly Richey fights for the ball in a game against lsU on Monday. Richey is willing to get physical after three years on her high school boys’ team.

N o w O U c o a c h M a t t Potter thinks that she can use her skills to help bolster a front line in need of a scor-er after senior forward Dria Hampton’s transfer to Florida State.

“Obviously Renae’s a tal-ent,” Potter said. “I was really pleased about the framework that she played within the concept of our team. People found her, and when those people find her, she’s going to be dangerous.”

Cuellar says that she is on the same page with her ex-pectations for this season.

“I hope that, being a for-ward, I can capitalize on all of the opportunities that are pre-sented to me,” Cuellar said. “Every game is a different

situation, whether it be scor-ing, or helping back more or passing more to somebody. I hope I can just do whatever is asked of me on that field.”

Cuellar certainly will get her fair share of opportu-nities, as the Sooners lack proven front-line offensive threats other than senior for-wards Caitlin Mooney and Amy Petrikin, both of whom came off of the bench in the win against Nebraska.

The dearth of experienced attackers leaves a door open for Cuellar, who comes onto the team as one of the most battle-tested players on the Sooner roster.

Garrett Holt garrett.holt@ou.edu

cUellaR: Transfer a break-out star for teamContinued from page B1

captains: New leaders have things to proveContinued from page B1

AT A GLANCE2012 captainslandry Jones, QB gabe ikard, Ol david King, dl trey Millard, FB tress Way, P

Source: OU coach Bob Stoops

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Suspended receiver moves to defensive back, safety leavesthe sooners’ roster received another shakeup today, as it was announced that redshirt freshman defensive back Bennett Okotcha no longer is with the team, and junior receiver trey Franks has switched positions to defensive back.

Okotcha’s departure had been rumored for several days on Ou football message boards, but it wasn’t confirmed until this afternoon.

Franks, who is serving an indefinite suspension but is expected to return midseason, changed his number from 2 to 24 upon changing positions.

Rowing team in search of more participants for fall season

Ou’s rowing team is holding an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday for anyone interested in joining the novice rowing team.

the meeting will be held at Chesapeake stadium Club level two, which can be accessed through gate 12 of Oklahoma Memorial stadium.

No experience is needed to attend the meeting, and in early september, the rowing team will hold open tryouts for prospective walk-ons.

Ou’s rowing team had its inaugural season in 2008.

Men’s basketball team to hold second-annual alumni game

the Ou men’s basketball team will hold its Alumni legends game at noon on saturday at lloyd Noble Center as part of the second annual sooner Basketball Family Weekend.

the weekend begins Friday morning with a golf tournament at Jimmie Austin golf Club, and Friday evening, the Wayman tisdale scholarship dinner will honor the 1988 runner-up team — who rivals.com ranked No. 10 on its top ten teams of 64 era.

After averaging a margin of victory of 25 points and entering the NCAA tournament as the top seed, the ‘88 squad lost to the danny Manning-led Kansas Jayhawks — known as “danny and the Miracles” — in the national championship.

Admission to the game is free, and an autograph session will be held following the game’s comple-tion.

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Your instincts and common sense will be greatly heightened in the year ahead. If you capitalize on most of the opportunities that are offered you, this could be a banner year.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Take positive measures to fulfi ll your aspirations. You’re presently in a brief cycle where your hopes have better than usual chances of being realized.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- One of your greatest assets is the ability to take the ideas of others and expand upon them in ways that could prove benefi cial to everyone involved. Don’t waste this gift.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Attitude is always extremely important, but a happy face can be more rewarding than usual today. If you think and behave like a winner, positive results are likely. Don’t doubt yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Lady Luck is likely to single you out in helping you reach a fi nancial or career objective. She’ll chart your path and open the doors, but the rest will be up to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- You could be in for a wonderful surprise when a situation that you’ve been fretting about turns out to be a boom rather than a bust. Don’t doubt yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- There’s no need to be resistant toward change, even if it’s being imposed upon you by outside forces. Lady Luck herself is engineering this

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- An idea or concept that you’ve been mulling over has greater potential than you may realize. Talk it over with a trusted colleague who is as farsighted as you are.

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Movie reviews

Good, bad, ugly: summer moviesEvery summer,

the big wigs of Hollywood use all

of their new bells and whis-tles to attract all of the stu-dents looking for an escape from the boredom of sum-mer vacation.

Superhero movies gar-nered an outstanding splash this summer with “The Avengers,” which landed a worldwide gross of more than $1.4 billion, according to its IMDb page.

Well, how do you fol-low up a release like “The Avengers?” Easy: “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Superheroes weren’t the only ones who showed up on the big screen this sum-mer. With big releases like “The Campaign” and “Ted,” star power was shining through everywhere.

With DVD releases on the horizon, you might be look-ing for a movie to watch or avoid when you find some free time this semester.

Look no further. Here are the ups and downs that this summer movie lineup will offer again this fall.

‘The Avengers’With the momentum of

five superhero blockbust-ers, a vast all-star cast and a comic book author writ-ing and directing, “The Avengers” had nothing holding it back.

This is one of those mov-ies you don’t just see once; you go back because it gives you such a rush that is im-possible to resist, like a giant film version of a Lay’s potato chip — you can’t eat just one.

Joss Whedon created a tale of good versus evil, with effects that will leave your jaw dropped.

The movie even has some sentimental scenes that are solidified by the amazing

PhoTo ProviDeD

Tom Hardy, as Bane, in director Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight rises,” which premiered July 20. Bane matches the villainous strength of the Joker in one of the summer’s darkest films.

performances by actors, like Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.

The Union Programming Board will be screening it at 6 p.m. Friday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union

‘Battleship’The concept seemed sim-

ple enough: a board game with which you sink each other’s battleships.

But with weak writing and crazy alien plot twists, they should’ve just left this one in development hell.

Once you make it through the opening scene, you already can tell that you aren’t going to want to keep watching, but if you decide to stick around, you will see Rihanna take the big screen for the first time.

She actually seems to have some talent for acting but maybe needs a better

eye for scripts.If you are looking for

a campy, dicey, action-packed explosion film, you might get a little enjoyment out of what Battleship has to offer.

‘Ted’Seth MacFarlane,

Seth MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane.

The man already is run-ning the world of animated comedy on television. Why not take his genius to the big screen?

MacFarlane is the mind and voice behind “Ted,” as well as hit television shows “Family Guy” and “American Dad.” If you don’t like his humor on tele-vision, you won’t like “Ted.”

It’s vulgar and over-the-top, but for a college stu-dent, it is the perfect com-edy movie.

Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis do an outstanding job matching the energy that MacFarlane puts out as the animated bear Ted.

If you are looking for fun, give Ted some time out of your day. He’ll get your gut busting.

‘Amazing Spider-Man’

Andrew Garfield took the reigns from Toby Maguire and surprised moviegoers.

He continued the witty sarcasm, which added some spunk and teenage angst back into the character. The love interest Gwen Stacy,

Emma Stone, has given him something to fight for.

The movie closely follows to the 2002 movie but also takes other pieces from the comic book source to give viewers a little something new.

Also, because of the out-standing Rhys Ifans as the villainous Lizard, this new film isn’t lacking in action or that dark comic book air.

‘The Campaign’Take “Anchorman” and

“Talladega Nights,” then throw in the antics that only “Step Brothers” could give us and you’ve got “The Campaign.”

This time, though, Will Ferrell must throw down with “Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis as southern politicians attempting to nab a Congressional seat in their district.

The movie has a few jokes

that will either fly right over your head or just aren’t funny.

With a short running time of only 85 minutes, this is a quick stop that is worth watching before the end of the summer.

‘Dark Knight Rises’After Heath Ledger set the

bar for villains in the series, it seemed impossible to cre-ate a character that could match up.

If the Joker was the men-tal match for Batman, Bane is the physical.

The cinematography is stunning from beginning to end.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Tom Hardy deliver incredible, in-depth performances.

It was a spot-on adapta-tion of these characters from the comic book pages to the big screen.

The only part people might complain about is the extremely cliché end-ing to the film, but honestly I couldn’t see it ending any other way.

Now, let’s all hope that Christopher Nolan will use film to delve further into the mythos of the Batman sometime in the future, but for now, we all can sit back and enjoy all that he has of-fered to this point.

Even if you missed every other movie this summer, go and see this one.

Jerry Stinnet is a University College freshman.

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Q-and-a

Emily HopkinsLife & Arts Reporter

The Daily had a phone interview with Phil Dickey, vocals/guitar/drums/song-writing for Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.

The daily: Why did you decide to make your band name a tribute to Boris Yeltsin?

Phil dickey: Well, it’s less a tribute than just kind of random. We came up with the name in high school, and we weren’t planning on being a band for another 12 years or so. Boris Yeltsin’s name was in the headlines at the time.

The daily: What was it like playing in Russia, especially so soon after Boris Yeltsin died?

dickey: It was like a weird dream. It didn’t seem real to be playing over there. It was like the biggest music festival in Russia, and we played outside this huge park. The whole thing was just really surreal. We were a little worried that people would be really offended by the name since he’s not very popular there. And we don’t endorse him at all or think he’s a great president or anything. We were a little nervous, but everyone was really nice and seemed to get the joke about the band name, so that was good.

The daily: What’s it like playing on a college campus versus an actual venue?

dickey: College shows have always been our bread and butter because we’ve always done really well with college radio — it’s kind of how we got started touring. Most clubs and bars we play at are dark and dirty, so to play on a campus with a nice stage and a nice room is pretty ideal. And the crowd always gets pretty into it. We love playing at colleges.

The daily: How do you think your music and songwriting has evolved since your college days?

dickey: I think I kind of go in and out of phases of being able to write songs. It’s still kind of a mystery of how we’re able to do a song, especially hearing it when it’s completed. I don’t really understand what’s actually happening, and we’re just trying really hard to write songs that don’t suck. I think we’re still trying to figure things out.

The daily: So you recorded “Broom” by yourselves with your own equipment. How does that process compare

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(From left) Will Knauer, Jonathan James, Phil dickey and John Robert Cardwell of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin pose together. The band came up with its name randomly in high school. When the group came up with the name, Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s name was in the headlines, but it wasn’t planning on being a band for about another 12 years, Phil dickey said.

with recording albums in the studio?

dickey: We like doing production stuff, too, so doing stuff on our own is kind of a nice way to craft the songs. But that can kind of drive you crazy a little bit, too, if you have too much control. So working in the studio with Chris Walla (producer and guitarist for Death Cab for Cutie) was nice to have someone else help us with decisions and arrangements and making an album. And it’s a lot cheaper.

The daily: What are the main differences between doing things on your own and being on a label? How did going to a label change things?

dickey: So we did the first album on our own, and at that point, we’d only played a couple of shows outside of our hometown. We’d been a band for like five or six years, so we kind of just thought of ourselves as a local band. We were just hanging out and kind of happened to make a record.

We just didn’t have any experience with the music industry at all. Getting a record label was just kind of like, especially at the beginning, just helped us connect the dots, like finding a booking agent and licensing our songs and stuff. They just made us a lot more professional and helped us to get things out. Now, we’ve been on our record label for five or six years. We have a better idea of what we’re doing now, but it just helps to work with people who know how to sell records.

The daily: What was it like touring with Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema Club?

dickey: We were in like a 15-passenger van, and they were in huge tour buses, so we were just kind of followed them around. They were all great people. Especially with Two Door Cinema Club, it really seemed like they were taking off during that tour. It was kind of exciting to be around and see a band play while that was happening. I think every show sold out.

They all looked like rock stars, so we kind of had to work on our rock moves and stuff so we could keep up.

The daily: Do you feel like touring with them boosted your fan base?

dickey: Yeah. Especially in New York City. There were like 5,000 people at the show or something, and most of them had never heard of our band, so it was definitely a good thing. Sometimes the crowds can be kind of hostile to the openers, but with them, their crowds were great to us. It was one of our favorite tours.

The daily: Who are some

of your personal musical influences?

dickey: A lot of classic rock and stuff. I think we all grew up listening to the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Jonathan Richman — just kind of a little bit of everything.

The daily: Are you working on a new album right now?

dickey: Sort of. We’re writing songs right now, but we haven’t figured out how we’re going to record them or where we’re going to record them. I think, on this tour, we might be testing out some new songs. I think when we get back from the tours, we’ll really start making plans for when

we’ll do our next album.

The daily: Do you have a time frame for the album, or are you just kind of seeing how it goes?

dickey: We’d definitely love to put it out later this year but probably early 2013.

The daily: Where do you hope you’ll be as a band in the next five years or so?

dickey: I’m hoping we’ll be able to find a band that doesn’t break down. We’re optimistic, but we’re not good at planning things.

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